Indigenous continent the epic contest for North America
"This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America," an epoch that supposedly laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demons...
| Main Author: | Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The myth of colonial America
- The world on the turtle's back
- The egalitarian continent
- Blind conquests
- Terra nullius
- The Powhatan empire
- Wars at the water's edge
- The Pequots shall no more be called Pequots
- The rise of the five nations league
- Enemies of the faith
- The power of weakness
- The English as a little child
- Metacom's challenge
- Virginia's civil and uncivil wars
- The great southwestern rebellion
- Holding the line
- They smelled like alligators
- An infinity of rancherías
- Magic dogs
- Wars to the end of the world
- British America besieged
- Worldly and otherworldly wars of independence
- A second Chinese wall
- The American crucible
- Western promises
- The white devil with his mouth wide open
- The long removal era
- The Comanche ascendancy
- The Lakota shield
- Epilogue : Revenge and revival.